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TV Globo, Brazil’s largest broadcaster, has signed a 10-year contract to distribute its international news and entertainment programming to cable and satellite TV operators throughout the Americas over the Intelsat...

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates [Toronto: MDA] has been selected by the Canadian Space Agency to design an Earth observation satellite mission that will use hyperspectral technology. The mission will use...

InOut TV agreed to buy satellite capacity from SES Astra, a unit of SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG]. A satellite at 19.2 degrees East will allow InOut TV subscribers to receive...

TVB Satellite Platform (El Segundo, Calif.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Chinese-language broadcaster TVB Group, agreed to let DirecTV, a Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH] subsidiary and the largest...

Middle Eastpay-TV satellite operator Showtime expects to become profitable in 2003. The operator, which has around 250,000 subscribers in markets throughout the Middle East, hopes to consolidate its already strong...

An arbitration tribunalhas ruled against Loral Space & Communications [NYSE: LOR] in its dispute over whether it violated a partnership agreement with Alcatel Space. Still unresolved is whether Loral will...

Korea’s Samsung Electronics has selected Conexant Systems [Nasdaq: CNXT] to provide digital satellite set-top box (STB) semiconductors deployment in Korea digital satellite broadcasting’s (KDB) SkyLife satellite television network. The STB...

Optimus, a provider of public safety technology, has been awarded a Federal Highway Administration research grant to develop a pedestrian alert system (PAS) using Global Positioning System technology. An Infiniti...

Zanett [Nasdaq: ZANE] has acquired Paragon Dynamics, a firm that provides software and satellite engineering services with domain area expertise on government and aerospace satellite and IT infrastructure contracts. According...

The U.S. Air Force has launched a Delta II rocket, built by Boeing [NYSE: BA], with a Global Positioning System IIR-8 satellite and an XSS-10 demonstration satellite payload. The rocket...